Re: How do I use regex to strip out specific characters in a string? (boo)

array slicing !

while (<DATA>){print join "_",(split/[ \/]/,$_)[1,2,4]}
__DATA__
Wed 08/22/2001 2:38p
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update Golf! Golf!
the above is 40, inside brackets, with print

update 22 : s/.{3,4} //g&&y|/|_|;
update I wasn't removing the colon :( so, at 23 s/.{3,4} //g&&y|/:|_|d
update as dutifully noted below, by danboo.

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Re: Re: How do I use regex to strip out specific characters in a string? (boo) by Sifmole (Chaplain) on Aug 23, 2001 at 01:00 UTC
Removed one.... `s/....? //g&&tr\|/:\|_\|d;` Update And one more, `s/....? //g&&tr\|/:\|_\|d;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How do I use regex to strip out specific characters in a string? (boo) by danboo (Beadle) on Aug 23, 2001 at 01:25 UTC
20: `s/\w+ //g&&y\|/:\|_\|d;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: How do I use regex to strip out specific characters in a string? (boo) by Sifmole (Chaplain) on Aug 23, 2001 at 16:13 UTC
You can easily get rid of one more: `19: s/\w+ //g&y\|/:\|_\|d;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: How do I use regex to strip out specific characters in a string? (boo) by danboo (Beadle) on Aug 23, 2001 at 00:56 UTC
your code gets shorter, but it's not getting any closer to solving the problem. the ':' remains.	[reply]